Robert Durst ordered to pay $165,000 to investigative firm hired to help his murder defense

Real estate heir Robert Durst must cough up $164,632 — plus interest — to an investigative firm he hired after his arrest in a California murder case, a judge ruled.

Durst, who is awaiting trial in Los Angeles for slaying friend and journalist Susan Berman in 2000, hired T&M Protection Resources to work on his defense.

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T&M sued him in in Manhattan Supreme Court in March 2017, claiming that Durst still owes for investigative services, which cost as much as $450 per hour. Court papers say Durst also inked a $25,000 retainer agreement with the firm.

Supreme Court Justice John Kelley — who said in a recent court hearing he didn’t know who Durst is — decided that the disgraced real estate scion’s lawyers failed to show why T&M should not be paid.

Durst “has failed to raise an issue of fact as to the performance and reasonable value of [T&M]'s services,” Kelley wrote in his ruling this week.

Berman was shot dead execution-style in her home in Berman Canyon, Calif., in 2000. Prosecutors say Durst murdered Berman because she had information about how he killed his wife, Kathie, in 1982.

Kathie Durst lived with her husband in a high-rise Manhattan apartment. Her body has never been found, and Durst has not been charged in her disappearance. She was finally declared dead last year.

Durst was also charged with the slaying of Morris Black, who was a neighbor when Durst lived in Galveston, Texas. Durst was acquitted of that killing in 2003 after he claimed he shot Black in self-defense.

Cops collared Durst in the Berman case in 2015 while he was on the run in New Orleans — just one day before HBO aired the final episode of “The Jinx,” a series chronicling his life.

During the episode, he was recorded on a hot mic saying, “There it is. You're caught. What the hell did I do? Killed them all, of course.”